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[Carlisle Blues]

Thank you..... More great stuff...Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys -- My Kinda Love (Louis Alter / Jo Trent), Columbia 1929.

Ed Kirkeby (Ted Wallace, Ed Lloyd) (1891 - 1978) band leader, vocalist, manager, and salesman, is best remembered as the manager of Fats Waller. He was one of the first recording managers at Columbia Records to record jazz. In 1924, as the manager of the prestigious American dance band known as the California Ramblers, Ed Kirkeby decided that a quintet of the band within the band would be an excellent novelty, especially for playing popular tunes of the day for dancers who preferred their music with a strong jazz flavour.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXS8dnRojrA

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to look forward to pulling frozen letters off the front of the marquee by --

Now playing, it's Young America's Favorite, Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra in 1938, getting all academic with "You're An Education." Very nice, but don't think you're gonna get any post-grad study there, pal.

Next, back to 1935 and Phil Harris and his Orchestra, with a highly cooperative version of "I'd Like To Take Orders From You." I'll have two eggs, scrambled, a side of sausage, white toast, and a large tea, no milk or sugar. And make it snappy, I'm in a hurry.

 

[Fletch]

I like that Harris platter. IIRC, Brian Rust didn't acknowledge it existed.

Links or patties?

 

[Fletch]

Endless Depression, part clxxxviii

It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing - Washboard Rhythm Kings, 1932.

The singer sings "It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing" - as it was usually sung at the time. The idea that music could swing was not yet widely accepted.

 

[Wash In Lux]

It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing - Washboard Rhythm Kings, 1932.

The singer sings "It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing" - as it was usually sung at the time. The idea that music could swing was not yet widely accepted.

Really nice! Thanks!

 

[Antje]

Blue tattoo, Marti Brom

 

[Wash In Lux]

Johnny Horton - Essential 1956-60. Poor guy was only 35 when he died from getting hit by a drunk driver.

 

[HadleyH]

Nat Shilkret 1928 "Thinking of You" happy tune, love it!!!


http://www.youtube.com/user/edmundusrex#p/u/196/dZk-d_AM1O0

Nat conducting in the 20s

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Gene Austin - Everything I Have Is Yours....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ6F7_3-I00&feature=related

 

[chanteuseCarey]

Xmas tunes on the computer in my files and on our son's ipod...

Sarah McLachlan "I Heard the Bells"
Josh Groban "Silent Night"
Il Divo "O Holy Night"
Ella Fitzgerald "What Are You Doin' New Year's"
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[Shangas]

Jimmy Dorsey - "Perfidia" (1941)

 

[Warden]

Last night I went to see the Puppini Sisters and in the theatre before the concert they where playing Phil Spectors "a Christmas Gift to you". I have not heard this in a good few years.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Jack Hylton and his Orchestra. I love British dance bands from the 1920s and 30s. There's something about the arrangements in these recordings that gives the songs a certain touch of class.

One, Two, Button Your Shoe (1937)
vocals by The Swingtette

 

[dhermann1]

The Big Broadcast on www.wfuv.org. Tonight he's featuring Al Bowlly and Ray Noble. Great stuff.

 

[anon`]

Abney Park - Dear Ophelia

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

a little bit of JJ and Eric

 

[Fletch]

It Never Dawned on Me, from 1935, another great non-Latin recording by Enric Madriguera's Orchestra that nobody today gives a damn about. Tony Sacco, one of my favorite period singers, does the honors.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

hmmm a crazy band called Aviões do Forro. Forro is a northeastern Brazilian music style, replete with accordion.

It's also the name of a dance..actually about 3 subgroups etc..which looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPOoPKUQ48c in its fastest incarnation...and more like country two step in its slowest incarnations.

 

[Chas]

 

[Shangas]

The Don Byas Quartet - "Gloomy Sunday" (The Hungarian Suicide Song). Recorded 1946.

...if you don't hear from me again, you'll know why...